w1k Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 please, its alive? distribution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Would hooking it up to the PBI be more useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Would hooking it up to the PBI be more useful? Gee, exactly my very first thought (yet again)... unless there is a vital enabling/disabling difference between hooking to the Cart. port vs. the PBI. I thought this was precisely the reason for PBI to ever exist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Don't you want one of these for your 400? Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Konopka Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Here we go again, after 4 years of silence. We managed to squeeze it into standard cartridge case. Runs at 15 MHz now. Thanks to Simius for all his efforts. Edited January 26, 2015 by Marek Konopka 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Cool! Congrats on your successes! -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Konopka Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=6934.jpg http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=6939.jpg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 [Archie Joke] I guess this means we'll have to rename the Rapidus to "Betty". http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=107 [/Archie Joke] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvas Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=6934.jpg http://atarionline.pl/forum/?PostBackAction=Download&AttachmentID=6939.jpg Would like to buy one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Curious- From the picture next to the XE, is it actually plugged into the cart port? It doesn't look long enough to extend past the Atari cart shell release tabs. Or maybe needs a small adapter so that can be used on XL/XE? -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simius Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 In fact, it is a bit shorter than should be, but is enough. There is no need to use an adapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice... this is real tempting, any figure on pricing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 From the picture next to the XE, is it actually plugged into the cart port? It doesn't look long enough to extend past the Atari cart shell release tabs. Or maybe needs a small adapter so that can be used on XL/XE? You'll see that two chunks of the board have been filed out to accommodate the release tabs. I hadn't noticed this at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Ah yes, thanks to you both. Until I looked at the large version of the pic, it just didn't look like the indents were large enough. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Looks like we finally have our "fx chip" for card release a la SNES So, Starfox for A8 anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Konopka Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7zWrQOFKQ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Konopka Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Would like to buy one! Give us a little bit more time for tweaking. Many thanks go to Simius for making it possible in a size reduced version (CPLD). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezz Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm certainly interested also. It would be great if it's emulated in Altirra for developing software to make use of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Konopka Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://youtu.be/K56sadbHJMU 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 OK - now I must have one of these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 btw... Konopka = Konop of Shadows??? esp. when I am watching the rotator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz73 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 O...M...G... Hey, I have an odd question... how difficult would it be to enable Veronica to work in the right cartridge port on an 800? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billkendrick Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 First I had heard of this. I totally dig "no mod" upgrades. *drooling* Also, regarding Star Fox on SNES, I had recently learned of Assault Force 3D for the Atari 8-bits that was a disk-based game but used a cart with a math processor on it. So I guess Atari did it first, anyway! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarian63 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 if there is a list to buy,please add me to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Guess I want one (or two) as well. But take your time Fall this year would suffice My first idea is to let the cart render the screen (tile map and LOTS of SW sprites) and the 6502 is starting the rendering then doing a gfx kernel (change HW-registers) in visible part of screen and advancing the game logic in the invisble. Then changing buffers and update the 16-bit CPU with a new game state and let him churn away. Considering the 65816 has NO RAM-refresh no ANTIC-DMA stealing it must be horrible fast. A quick calculation shows that it should be theoretically able to render 24 soft sprites (9x16 pixel) in the 70 scan lines of the PAL-VBL alone. Considering that with some "modern" instructions it might even be faster. Might as well be at least 10 13x24 sprites Please someone pull me back to the ground and tell me it isn't THAT fast. Let alone, 6502 could play digi sound with 15KHz (or at least 7KHz). What nonsense am I talking. The cart runs a SID emulation of course (in the other 200 scan lines left over by the soft-sprite renderer ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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